BILLY HOLIDAY - 1933-1937 {CC, 582} (1991) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Two things stand out in these early recordings. One, of course, is Lady Day's already fully mature style. The other is the superb quality of the musicians who backed her. A Benny Goodman combo; Bunny Berigan and Artie Shaw with Joe Bushkin and Cozy Cole; Jonah Jones with Ben Webster and Teddy Wilson; Buster Bailey; a bunch of Basie-ites including the superb Lester Young. Even without her this would be a gem. by John Storm Roberts
Tracklist:
1 Your Mother's Son-In-Law 2:43
Mann Holiner / Alberta Nichols
2 Riffin' the Scotch 2:33
Fred Buck / Benny Goodman / Dick McDonough / Johnny Mercer
3 Did I Remember? 2:50
Harold Adamson / Walter Donaldson
4 No Regrets 2:35
Roy Ingraham / Harry Tobias
5 Summertime 2:54
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin / DuBose Heyward
6 Billie's Blues 2:38
Billie Holiday
7 A Fine Romance 2:50
Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern
8 I Can't Pretend 3:03
Harry Tobias
9 One, Two, Button Your Shoe 2:48
Johnny Burke / Arthur Johnston
10 Let's Call a Heart a Heart 3:01
Johnny Burke / Arthur Johnston
11 One Never Knows, Does One? 3:02
Mack Gordon / Harry Revel
12 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 2:54
Irving Berlin
13 If My Heart Could Only Talk 3:02
Teddy Powell / Walter Samuels / Leonard Whitcup
14 Please Keep Me in Your Dreams 2:18
Vee Lawnhurst / Tot Seymour
15 Where Is the Sun? 2:46
Lee David / David Lee / John Redmond
16 Let's Call the Whole Thing Off 3:36
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
17 They Can't Take That Away from Me 3:02
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
18 Don't Know If I'm Comin' or Goin' 2:45
Lee Wainer
19 Me, Myself and I 2:35
Irving Gordon / Alvin Kaufman / Allan Roberts
20 A Sailboat in the Moonlight 2:49
John Jacob Loeb / Carmen Lombardo
21 Born to Love 2:38
J.K. Jerome / Jack Scholl
22 Without Your Love 2:52
John Lange / Fred Stryker
23 Getting Some Fun Out of Life 3:01
Joe Burke / Edgar Leslie
24 Who Wants Love? 2:33
Gus Kahn / Franz Waxman